Amethyst Mine Trailhead Western Colorado
Amethyst Mine Trailhead Western Colorado
Hey guys, so in this video we were trying to go to a location i found online to dig for Amethyst crystals but we weren’t sure were were in the correct location due to my maps not downloading correctly. We just decided to continue the path and see where it took us. Luckily it took us where we were wanting to go. Ended up finding lots of river/creek tumbled Fluorite crystals, some were mixed with Malachite and Azurite. It is on BLM Land but be careful there are claims in area. We had a interesting trip taking the riverbed back down. If you take the creek bed down to the road you will run across many drop offs ranging from 10 foot to 60 foot drops. So if you chose to take that route it will be an intense hike for you. The trail is about a 45 min hike compared to 3 hour hike by river.
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Didnt make it to the mine i see though. Its a two day trip to get a good feel of the area.
Nice supply list!
I live in junction. Check out “opal hill” in fruita.
I had motion sickness wen u looked down…so real. glad u guys r alright 👍pretty rocks… my fave color is green
This video is awesome!!…I’m making my critical tool list as we speak,.. definitely an area I want to investigate. Important question tho,..being from Michigan,will I get altitude sickness?..kinda important…lemme know
Cool man. Missing one critical tool – chopsticks
Oh man i have to go now!
Does that creek have a season when it runs? Thats when I would go to that place, the scenery would be great with a bit of water. I am also surprised there is still colour in that float flourite, the sun bleaches it out with exposure. Did you check its glow under UV?
Some great finds there. They really cleaned up nicely!
I been in that area if your going back soon let me know I have some better spots
Amazing finds, loved the video. The walk back looked very nasty
Ok! You got me! What kind of banded snake was that? The first one looked like a rattler? But that banded one has me puzzled?
Other wise – wish I was there, rock hunting with you!
Man… will have to look into grand junction next time i go!
Dont know if you guys went back to that location ever, but if you go up the canyon till you come to the washed out hill and the large mined out area there are lots of crystals in the dirt.
I’ve actually been over to the mine (I know this is way late) but I was about a year ago, sadly both mines had to be caved in but it exposed the upper portion of the amethyst vein, which has that green fluorite on top, it was fun to pull some pieces form the source
That first one fluorite with Quartz😍😍 beautiful.
Wow! That certainly was an epic adventure…but you found some simply awesome finds. Love the amethyst crystals on the flourite! Both my favourites. Stay cool🙃👍🦘
I can’t believe you didn’t mention the small pieces of gold on a few of those nice specimens. In fact cripple creek has tons of gold associated with Amethyst quarts veins and also has calaverite.
Where is this location? Would like to take a ride there
Love this! Going to see Trevor Hall (love the song you chose) at Red Rocks this weekend and maybe we can stop here coming home!
Cool finds!!! Love finding mineral combos.
Terrible samples my friend, keep it up !!
This is the wild beauty of nature !!
Congratulations !!
Is there somewhere nearby where the granite contacts the sandstone? In the vicinity of the veins? Around here those contacts are very productive for amethyst. Honestly, it seems like the area you’re in might yield better fluorite specimens if you can find some vugs and get into cubes. I read a few of the comments and saw that you’d gone back and found more, I look forward to seeing it! I love seeing what others find for amethyst! Cheers!
Country Jam…Grand J….Oh the memories, but the Fossil hunting almost everywhere under the Grand Mesa was EPIC….heck the rocks around one of the golf courses we shot where awesome. Plus i found close to 100 balls that day. People dont go after missed hits….snakes of the rattley kind were present.
Nice finds the sound was hard to hear.